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Mayurbhunj Dream Centre… 44 girls from Grade 2 – 7. Average of 6 subjects per child. Language, Math, Science, English, Social Science. They just finished their Final Exams. ALL 44 GIRLS GOT ALL A GRADES IN ALL SUBJECTS. They blew away the other village kids. All toppers. My jaw is still on the ground. The…

The Good News India Acres of Diamonds film is coming soon. I am overjoyed to have a film festival quality documentary that will tell the story of our precious kids in India. We need your help to complete the last of the few dollars necessary to finish the project. And this week we can make…

At SFO, with 22 people heading off on a GNI adventure tour… 19 students/faculty from The Kings Academy in Sunnyvale… O what fun awaits us… Dubai and onto Delhi…

99 memorable days in India… jut returned to Phx… good to be back for a couple of weeks before heading back….. GNI is a barreling truck with 30 “cylinders firing”…. nearly 3000 kids on board….it’s also a complicated truck… no boredom here… I love it.

21 GNI Bhubaneswar Head Office staff at an appreciation dinner hosted by Shawn Small and Wonder Voyage. Thank you. Sumptuous Chinese Dinner.

What a joyous time we had celebrating the birth of our Savior at our Dream Centres…Christmas service with our kids dressed in their new clothes…dancing…singing…gorgeous decorations…fireworks…and lots of laughter! It was a day to remember!

Many days in the deep hinterlands of Odisha… finally back at Bhubaneswar before hosting lots of USA guests coming through… This is a video from Youth Camp done by our top dancing team from Dhenkanal. Enjoy… Here is the link on youtube… https://youtu.be/eOwH_l6Eyxc

At LAX … About to depart for India… Beautiful new Boeing 777 with China Eastern.. Off to Delhi.. Heavy winter schedule

Having a wonderful visit with my grandchildren in NYC!

Oct 17 – O happy day.. two of our adult lepers found love, acceptance and freedom at our Dream Centre… and guess what? They also found each other, and fell in love… my joy to marry them. And celebrate with them. This people group, (lepers in India) that, in my opinion, is truly at the…

I am tickled pink… heading back in a few days to unite another couple who live with leprosy… (“my old geezer and geezee”) – two single, broken, rejected outcast lepers who found their way to our City of Refuge. And then when the healing grace of Calvary covered them, they fell in love! And I’m…

Sitting at Delhi airport awaiting my long flight to Phx. Pondering on the goodness of Jesus to allow me to belong to so many darling kids. Just finished a tour with a small group from Illinois. We set a record… 5 dream centers in one day (800 kids) and then drove 2 hours to catch…

Traveling deep inside Western Odisha,, on roads that are not roads…visiting our dream centers and encouraging our beloved directors to fight the good fight… facing hostility and pressures from the powers that be that hate the things of Christ and want to shut us down…. received an official notice to close one dream center down……

Spent the day yesterday laughing my head off with our adult lepers as we joked and talked. They want their own church building. They want to marry each other. They want separate married quarters.. ( I teasingly asked: why? They blushed..!!)They are so full of life, love and laughter. They tease each other. They have…

7 intense weeks in India… at Kolkata airport awaiting flight to Phoenix… About to purchase 3 new properties, 2 massive buildings almost ready for dedication; 3 new constructions about to begin; 5 major graduations with almost 300 graduates; many new kids taken in from lives of quiet desperation; battling opposition from authorities hostile to the…

At Tel Aviv airport awaiting flight to Phoenix. 20 incredible days of indepth study of the life and times of Jesus. Thoroughly rejuvenated. My faith is soaring and determined to love Him and love my fellow human being. Heading back to my kids in India on Monday. 5 big graduation ceremonies ..

Adult lepers in India – a people group that is truly at the bottom of society. They now live with us and the grace of Calvary is restoring to them what time and circumstances have stolen from them. Against the backdrop of the Tommy Barnett Building, the lost, the last and the least are praying,…

Back at Delhi Airport, heading to Phoenix. Doing a 2 week study course in Israel in May with the Center for Holy Land Studies… lectures, digs, readings, etc… Then back to India for 5 major graduation events… We just concluded a fun and refreshing GNI Staff Camp at Puri Beach, with about 250 people.

My “acres of diamonds” come from extremely impoverished and broken backgrounds. At Rayagada Dream Centre today, with 25 American guests, several of our GNI college kids told me that their peers tell them: You guys cannot be from an orphanage… you look like you come from wealthy homes, but you don’t act snobbish..”..I burst a…

Deogarh. 10 Lepers. A 1937 decrepit abandoned Leprosy Clinic. All have been there for 30+ years. Allowed to go into nearby town to beg twice a week. Harsh life. Good News India found them and now we take care of them. Recently, the local government provided them with free electrical connection. So, we bought each…